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THE NEW SPANISH The Duke d’Arcos Comes from One of the Oldest Families of Europe, But Ilis Wife Is An American. Don Jose Brunetti y Gayoso, Duke d’Arcos, the newly appointed minister from Spain, is a howling Iberian swell. His ancesters were famous people a century before Columbus was born; in fact, the family is one of the most an¬ cient in Europe. In the National Mu¬ seum one may see a geographical globe, made in Germany about the year 1453, which, for obvious reasons, has no America on it at all, but only a blank of blue ocean instead. All the provinces and principal towns of Spain, however, are carefully delineated on this interesting sphere, which Is of large size, and one of the cities shown is Cadiz, which, by the way, was given by royal grant to a forebear of Don Jose’s, “for his good and loyal services In the war against the Moors.” Thus It will be seen that the new Spanish minister, who is expected to arrive in Washington next week, is a personage provided by birthright with a background of hoary antiquity. The oldest American families are mere mushrooms compared with his ancient line, and the supplementary titles he enjoys are so numerous that he is able to take only a few of them with him ■when he goes out In society. For ex¬ ample, he is Marquis of Zahara, as well as Marquis of Cadiz, and incidentally is obliged to uphold the dignity of Count of Coasarez. In the course of so many centuries Don Jose was obliged to accumulate quite a large number of ancestors, and to one of these, in 1469, the town of Arcos was given by the then king of Spain. Those were the good old times when monarchs were accustomed to give away a town or two whenever they felt in a good humor toward anybody. It was much as if President McKinley, if he were an unlimited potentate, should make a present of Trenton, N. 3 .Inf DtontiJ D'fflKby ; .■. fe 1] Wfyu . I (I 9/ V 'S 4 \\ i j a - % \ i/< 1 m a » ;V. mkr' fnf D40CO< u®K£ 1. P THE DUKE AND DUCHESS. J., or Chester, Pa., with the inhabitants thereunto appertaining, to Senator Billy Mason or Representative Hender¬ son. This was a very jolly old custom Indeed, and pity ’tis that it should have fallen into desuetude. Anyway, the facts quoted explain how the family title of the Duke d’Arcos originated. With Cadiz for a city property and Arcos for a country place, the family of the new Spanish minister felt itself pretty adequately provided for terri¬ torially, but, unfortunately, there came a time, in 1493—one-year after the dis- covery of America—when their most Catholic majesties, Ferdinand and Isa¬ bella, decided that they required the seaport of Cadiz in their business. This business was the trade with the East Indies, which part of the world had then newly loomed up, not merely in a geographical but also in a com¬ mercial sense, There was no resisting the royal demand, and so the then Duke d’Arcos gave up the title deeds to the property, receiving in exchange a brand-new collection of titles and other equivalents. at Few ancient families are without least one wicked ancestor, and to this yule the noble line of Arcos is no excep- tion. It is recorded in history that in 1646 Don Rodrigue Pons de Leon, Duke d’Arcos, was sent by the king of Spain to govern Naples as viceroy. This was exceedingly rough on Naples, as is proved by his record while acting in that administrative capacity. How- ever, it may not have been so much his fault as that of his government, which at that time needed money very badly to carry on wars with France and Portugal. He was instructed to grind out of the people every peseta they could be persuaded to give up. and these orders he carried out to the let¬ ter. His agents did their duty pitiless¬ ly, and the duke closed his ears to the complaints of the unhappy victims of his exactions, In one case certain un- fortunates had the impudence to de¬ clare that they had not money enough to buy a bed, and the tax collector re¬ plied, “Why, then, do you not sell your wives and daughters?” This course of procedure finally pro¬ voked a rebellion in 1647, which quick¬ ly assumed most formidable propor¬ tions. The uprising was headed by a fisherman named Manzaniello, and was so far successful that the viceroy was finally compelled to yield and to grant all the demands of the revolutionists, Including equal rights for the people and the nobility and the abolition of the excessive taxes. Unhappily, Man- zanlello, elated by his success, lost his head—as it turned out, in more senses than one. A reaction, cleverly en¬ gineered by the duke, set in, and the upshot of it was that the fisherman’s head was cut off and carried to the viceregal palace, amid the applause of the very populace of which not long be¬ fore he had been the idol. Quite naturally, their family being so famous, wealthy and conspicuous, the men of the d’Arcos name have been prominent in public life, generation af¬ ter generation. Thus it came about that Don Jose Brunetti, while as yet lacking the ducal title, entered the diplomatic service of his government. He was appointed “diplomatic super¬ numerary” in the foreign office at Ma¬ drid in 1862 and two years later was sent as attache to the Spanish legation at Vienna. After filling various other minor diplomatic posts in Europe he was made first secretary of the Spanish legation at Washington in 1816. Since then he has been minister resident at Caracas and Montevideo, minister plen¬ ipotentiary to Chili, and minister plen¬ ipotentiary to Mexico, holding this last office from 1894 until recently. His ap¬ pointment to Washington, of course, is a promotion. It so happened at the time when Count Brunetti, as he was known, be¬ came first secretary of the Spanish le¬ gation at Washington twenty-three years ago, a very beautiful and charm¬ ing girl had been newly introduced to the society of the eapital. Her name was Virginia Woodbury Lowery, and she was the only daughter of Archibald Lowery, a conspicuous Washingtonian, who enjoyed through inheritance the possession of large means. Miss Low¬ ery’s mother was herself a daughter of one of New Hampshire’s most famous men, Levi Woodbury, who was a mem- ber of Jackson’s cabinet and, at the time of his death, a justice of the Su¬ preme Court. Thus, her social position was the highest possible, and, from Brunetti’s point of view, she was emi¬ nently eligible as a wife. SOME QUEER BOOKMARKS. Librarian Could Stock a Museum with These Curious Articles. To some people anything is good enough for a bookmark, says the New York Telegraph. In a good many in¬ stances they forget to remove them when they have finished reading the book. That is the reason why so many odd things find their way to the pub¬ lic libraries. A librarian was talking about this thing the other day. He said: “I could stock a museum with the queer things I have found in our books. These articles include all kinds of bills, grocery bills, gas bills and the like; hair pins, fancy and plain and of all metals, and hair ornaments of every design and material; love letters ga¬ lore, some of which make one blush reading; locks of hair, bits of lace,dress samples and watch chain charms; pen- and-ink, pencil, crayon and water- color sketches; postal orders and post¬ age stamps; and I have also a dried human ear, which I found in a book on surgery, borrowed by a medical stu¬ dent probably, as I hear they carry all sorts of uncanny things about with them. Photographs, too, figure large¬ ly in my collection. I once found an insurance policy in a book, but it was quickly claimed. It is purely the re¬ sult of absent-mindedness. A person deeply engrossed in a book and sud¬ denly called away from it would dreamingly put his hand out and take the first thing he saw to use as a book mark, then go away and forget all about it. The time allowed for bor¬ rowing the book might expire on that or the following day and probably a member of the family might casually pick the volume up and return it to the library without thinking of exam¬ ining the interior. The receiving clerk at the library counter is supposed to turn over the pages of returned bonks in the presence of the borrower, but whether this is always done largely depends upon the humor of the assist¬ ant. In a crush returned volumes are laid aside for future examination. The artful advertiser cannot let even li¬ brary books alone. Somebody is an agent for a certain patent medicine. He takes out half a dozen books to anybody else’s one, not that they are MINISTER. ever read, but simply for the purpose of inserting a circular. I have at last succeeded In stopping him.” THE MYSTERY OF DREAMS. A Case in Which the Coincidences Were Remarkable. On an occasion during the civil war I dreamed that I was standing beside a road when there came marching along It a strong column of prisoners with guards at Intervals on the flanks. I asked one of these guards who the prisoners were and where they had been captured. He Informed me that they had been taken in an engagement with the enemy on the day before, and that there were nineteen hundred of them. I then asked some bystander what day of the month it was and was told that it was such a day of a cer¬ tain month, some six weeks later than the date of the dream. The whole dream was extremely distinct and it made a strong impression on me. I related it to a number of my comrades within the next few days, and then thought of It no more. Six weeks later, on the morning of the very day that had been mentioned in the dream as the date when the column of prisoners had passed before me, I was on picket two miles distant from the point where I seemed to be when I saw them. It was soon after breakfast, and I was standing by the side of the road at the fire, talking to the officer of the pick¬ et, when an aide to the commanding general came riding down the road. He had been a schoolfellow of our officer’s at West Point and reined up when he recognized his friend. He told us that he had good news, that there had been a sharp engagement with the enemy the day before and that our people had captured nineteen hundred prisoners who had just passed the headquarters that morning on their way to the rear. —New York Post. Longevity in Animals. •ffie elephant sometimes undoubtedly attains the age of 150 years. As a basis for this opinion we have the famous Bheemsuttee, owned by his highness the Maharajah of Mysore. This elephant was captured in 1805, when about 3 years old. In 1876 she was in excellent health and showed no evidence of great age. The natives of some of the Indian tribes believe that an elephant never dies, for the reason that they have never found a dead one. The Singhalese believe that the ele¬ phant has a certain place—a deep val¬ ley which no man has ever seen—-to which they retreat when about to die. The whale is undoubtedly a long-lived aniipal, and is accredited with a cen¬ tury of life. A quiet, uneventful life, without great exertion, is conducive to longevity, which perhaps explains why the turtle attains sueh great age. In 1821 there died a tortoise whioh had lived in the Bishop’s gardens at Peter¬ borough for over a century, and from the records and account of it, kept from time to time, it was estimated to have attained the ripe old age of 223 years. In 1625 a friend presented Archbishop Laud with a tortoise which he placed in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, where it lived until 1753, or 128 years, dying then, not from old age, but on account of the neglect of the gardener. An interesting case of longevity was seen in a turtle brought from the Seychelles in 1766 by the Chevalier Marion du Fresne. He de¬ livered it to the authorities of the Mauritius, who kept it until 1853, when Sir Charles Colville, then governor of the island, sent it to the London Zoo¬ logical Gardens. This gave the tor¬ toise a known age of 67 years, and as it was fully grown when first brought to Mauritius it may easily have been a centenarian. Fish are known to at¬ tain great age, and instances of fishes living twenty and thirty years are not uncommon. It is supposed that some of the golden carp in the parks about Paris are over 100 years old, and a pike in an English pond had a silver tag to the effect that it was 90 years old. Latest from Cuba. The Spanish police reporter for the Cuba Times gathered the following in¬ teresting items the other day: Fine—• The inspector of the Fifth precinct of police general, Calixto Enarmorado, put a fine on the lady Sona Terrado, living at Campanario No, 12, for emptying her slops into the street on a gentleman’s head. Detailed—Finding the gentleman Don Lorenzo Carbonell inebriate and making a noise he was arrested. A Mule—In Marina street there was found a mule running loose without knowing his owner. He was sent (the mule) to the Fosos, subject to the disposition of the second lieutenant of the Alcalde. , All He Could Promise. “Now, Tom,” she pleaded prettily, “promise me one thing. Promise me that when you leave the club tonight you won’t go anywhere else, but will come straight home.” “I’ll come as straight as I can, my dear,” Tom answered, thoughtfully. — Somerville Journal. Five Hundred Dance in a Cask. The largest cask in the world is the Blatner cask of Nuremberg, Germany. It is 106 feet in diameter and fifty-one feet deep, and its completion a few years ago was celebrated by a ball, at which over 500 persons were on the floor of the cask. The tax on coffee amounts in France to about 14 cents a pound, while in Kngland it is only 3 cents a pound. BATTLE WITH A TUNA THE SWAMPED AND WRECKED THE BOAT. Was Finally Captured—One of the Men Swam a Long Distance to a Launch, Keeping Up a Constant Fight with the Fish. One of the most remarkable experi¬ ences ever recorded In fishing annals took place near Avalon, Catalina is¬ land, Cal., recently, almost resulting in the drowning of three men. C. F. Holder, president of the Tuna club, and T. M. Townsend of Philadelphia, with “Jim” Gardner as boatman, started for Long Point, towed by the launch Min¬ nehaha. Off White’s Landing they struck a large school of tunas, darting in every direction. Townsend had thii first strike, but failed to hook his fish. A second later Holder had a strike and in a moment the boat was rushing astern after the fish. After a hard struggle the fish was brought to gaff. Holder passed the tip of his rod for¬ ward and Gardner hooked the fish with the gaff and proceeded to haul it in. Just as it was landed the fish gave a convulsive leap and capsized the boat. The fishermen were about a mile from shore and the launch was some dis¬ tance away, having kept off to avoid the line when the fish was playing. Holder, seeing that the boat would not hold them all, struck out for the launch, which he finally reached, great¬ ly exhausted. The other two men were having a serious time, as the fish rolled the boat over several times, and the wire ladder of Holder’s line was wound around Townsend’s legs. Gard¬ ner also started to swim to the launch, leaving Townsend alone with the boat, which was now turned bottom up, allowing the latter to climb on the ke«l. Gardner was still holding on to Holder’s fish and performed a most remarkable feat of courage. Some¬ times he was on top of the fish and sometimes the fish was on top of him. Three times the game creature made desperate plunges and carried Gardner under water. Finally Gardner reached the launch exhausted. He did not re- lease his grasp on the fish until Holder and Mrs. Gardner drew it in. When the fishermen were rescued the water for an acre around looked as though there had been a wreck. Oars,clothes, rudders, gaffs, hats and other debris floated about. Gardner was badly cut and scraped by his fight with the fish, THE CRADLE OF COEDUCATION. Some of tlie Prim Rules That Governed the Early Girl Graduate. It is now about sixty-five years since for the first time in the history of our country young ladies studied the high- er branches in the same classroom with young men and publicly received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin college, the cradle of co-educa- tion. In the year 1841 “three women graduated and were the first young women to receive a degree in arts,” and in 1844 two women applied for ad- mission to the theological seminary, were admitted and finished the course, althoiigh they did not receive a de- gree. One coveted privilege these young ladies were not permitted to enjoy—that of reading their essays on commencement day. The professor of rhetoric was their proxy. Such an ardent woman’s rights advocate as Lucy Stone had to suffer under this humiliating discrimination, but not without vigorous protest. Her essay was not read by the professor of rhet¬ oric for the simple reason that It was never written. In 1859 that barrier was broken down by the pent-up energies of many generations of irate female students, who here as everywhere ob¬ tained their rights if they wanted them. The living" of the young ladies must have been very plain, for they paid only 75 cents a week for board, and they paid that by work at the rate of 3 cents an hour. I find nowhere a record of class parties, and not a trace of a class picture, and I know that there existed no such frivolous thing as a chocolate drop. There were four women to enter the first regular fresh¬ man class. Though the frivolities of modern college life were not per¬ mitted, love could not be kept out, and Mary F. Kellogg, one of the four, aft¬ erward became the wife of ex-Presi- dent Fairchild. The mother of Dr. Barrows, the recently elected presi¬ dent, was also one of those pioneers of coeducation, and she certainly did noi dream that at a crisis in the history oi her alma mater she would give her beloved son to be the leader of that noble institution. — Woman’s Home Companion. A Farting; Shot. “Perhaps it is best after all,” re¬ marked the rejected suitor as he lin¬ gered in the hall. “A man of 25 would soon tire of a wife who hovered round the 32 mark.” “Why, Mr. Ar- dent,” said the woman in the case, “how very ungallant of you to insin¬ uate that I am 32.” "Well, perhaps you are not,” he replied, “but it cer¬ tainly struck me that you were some¬ where near the freezing point.” Credit Where It Is Hue. “I am afraid that our new son-in- law’s aristocratic traditions will make it difficult for him to hold his own in financial affairs.” “I kind of felt that way,” replied her husband, “but donit let’s be hasty in judging him. I must say he talked right up like a business man when it came to fixing a dowry." —Washington Star. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. THE CLOSING CENTURY’S MOST REMARKABLE WOMAN. I*he Story of Her Life 11a* Keoent.Iy Keen Told In Book Form—Elnora M. Bobeoek'a Tribute to the Leader of ’Woman's Bights Movement. One of the most valuable and Inter¬ esting historical works which has made Its appearance of late tells of the life and works of Susan B. Anthony. This work is far more than the recital of one woman's experience, even though that woman be the most Inter¬ esting personality of the century. It is a history of the great evolution of the status of woman,in which Miss An¬ thony has been the central figure. It pictures the struggle of women to ob¬ tain the right to speak in public, first in behalf of the slave, then in the in¬ terest of temperance and next for her own freedom, for laws to secure her¬ self the control of her property, her wages, her person and her children. Then follows the long-continued battle for equal educational advantages and equal industrial opportunities; and last and longest of all, for the citizen’s right to the franchise. When Miss Anthony began her V: 1] mi I V'v ill if I ; Hi - p |i ,^'j j ■ III; ■lilcV m ! Jlgi Si a pfm Rife : imn wi ; 'ffll % EHi# V /■!§ PffP w w? '* r SUSAN B. ANTHONY. work, woman was a chattel in the eye ' of the law; shut out from all advan- tages of higher education and oppor- tunities in the industrial world; an ut- ter dependent on man; occupying a subordinate position in the church; re- strained to the narrowest limits along social lines; an absolute nonentity in politics. Today, American women are envied by those of all other nations, and stand comparatively free individu¬ als, with the exception of political dis¬ abilities. 1 During the fifty years which have , wrought this revolution, Miss Anthony j is the one woman in all the world who has given every day of her time, every dollar of her money, every power of her being, to secure this result. She was impelled to this work by no per- sonal grievance, but solely through a deep sense of the injustice which, on ; every side, she saw perpetrated against her sex, and which she determined to combat. Never for one short hour has the cause of woman been forgotten or put aside for any other object. Never a single tie has been formed, either of affection or business, which would in- terfere with this supreme purpose, Never a speech has been given, a trip taken, a visit made, a letter written, in all this half century, that has not been done directly in the interest of this one object. There has been no thought of personal comfort, advance- , ment or glory; the self-abnegation, the self-sacrifice, have been absolute—they have been unparalleled, Future generations will read the MAJOR J. B. MARCHAND. I si A \ l V/ / fUF-ii 1 lSJ II us Hf#' Maj. J. B. Marehand, who has just been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor at Jiboutel, on the East African coast, where he lately ar¬ rived, is an officer of the French ma¬ rine infantry. Marehand made his ap- pearance on the horizon of European influence in Africa in January, 1896, when he went with a splendidly equipped expedition, the purpose of which was the occupation of Upper Egypt and the uattion of the French colony on the Gulf of Aden with the French possessions on the Congo river, pages of this book through tears, and will wonder what manner of people those were who not only permitted this woman to labor for humanity for fifty years, almost unaided, but also compelled her to beg or earn the money with which to carry on her work. From being the most ridiculed and merciless¬ ly persecuted woman, Miss Anthony has become the most honored and re¬ spected woman in the nation. No on® can read this book, no matter what may be their opinion in regard to the reforms advocated by her, without be¬ ing deeply impressed with the noble courage and sublime faith it has re¬ quired to stand by a principle amid the discouragements and ridicule she has been obliged to overoome. ELNORA M. BABCOCK. AN ENGLISH INDUSTRY. Recovery of MiNslles That Are Fired in Naval Artillery Practice. Mr. Seppings Wright has come across many curious trades and peculiar methods of earning a living in his wan¬ derings through all corners of the globe, hut the business of shotting he discovered at home, for it is daily pur¬ sued under the eyes of thousands ot holiday folks and landsmen generally, who neither know nor care what the longshoremen are about in their fish¬ ing boats a few miles from land. But these busy workers are engaged upon the business of “shotting,” and the na¬ ture of that peculiar occupation we will now describe. All royal navy men training for rank of seaman-gunner have to undertake a more or less lengthy term of regular practice in fir¬ ing, and for these men during their pe¬ riod of training some two or three of the old pattern gunboats are set aside. These vessels are connected with every dockyard, and, while obsolete for bat¬ tle purposes, make excellent training ships. They are, of course, fitted with approved modern weapons, and daily during the season they carry squads of embryo gunners to the seaward rages that lie outside the Spithead forts. The bearings of these practice grounds de¬ pend on the particular conjunction of certain objects ashore, and the targets are generally placed in shoals where a fair range can be commanded free oi traffic. After a busy and noisy period so much solid metal has been blazed away into the sea, and it is this Metal that the shotters set forth to recover when the gunboats have done their task and return to the dockyard. The ranges and the area in which the canon bails must probably lie submerged are, of course, well known to the search¬ es. Armed with experience and a long, iron-shot pon,, they sail over the ranges and probe the shallow bottom carefully. Familiarity with their task renders them skilful, and an expert knows in an instant when his pole touches the hidden projectile beneath. The shell found, a pair of huge tongs is lowered into the sea, and it is gripped and carefully lifted aboard. The price of the metal shells is slight, and rarely exceeds one penny one-hali a pound, but the brass studs on the shot possess considerable more value, and these are usually cut out intact. Both studs and the main iron of the recovered shells are sold to the royal navy, and the prices offered appear suf¬ ficient to set many men at steady work on the. task of recovering them.—Lon¬ don Balck and White. Should Take Precautions. Old Lady—That parrot I bought of you uses dreadful language. Bird Dealer—Ah, mum, you should be werry careful what you see afore it; it’s as¬ tonishing how quick them birds picks up anytbink.—Tit-Bits. It wee not until the daring and in- genious officer arrived at Fashoda and strung up his republic’s flag that Eng¬ land became alarmed. Fashoda is dan¬ gerously near to Khartoum, and all that part of Africa is politically pre¬ empted by Great Britain. Then, too, English claimed a moral right to the Soudan, because of Gordon’s death and the massacre of his army by the fanatical mahdists. The story ol Marchand’s withdrawal from Fashoda, the diplomatic complications and the backdown of the Paris government is recent and familiar history.